See if you can name all 50 US states in 10 minutes. Sounds easy, huh? Well, I consider myself knowledgeable in all things American, but only got 49. (I want to make it clear that I am not an idiot; I actually had heard of the state I missed ). I request that if you chose to try this, please DO NOT READ PAST THIS OP TO OTHER RESPONSES UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR ATTEMPT. This is because I would like each respondent to post his or her results including the states, if any, that were missed, and seeing other people’s results could influence you. Yeah, we could use spoilers, but it’s just so much easier this way.
To summarize, make your attempt and post which states you missed.
extra space added to hide first respondent’s post.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Conneticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Lousiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missisipt
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washinton
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
All fifty, courtesy of a stupid song I had to learn in Junior High School
Alabama
Arkansas
Alaska
Arizona
California
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New York
New Jersey
New Mexico
New Hampshire
North Dakota
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Dakota
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Let’s see. Started at 10:57am; ended at 11:07am EST. Wrote them down by hand, in two columns of 25 each. Racked my brains for the last two minutes or so, but I missed Kansas, Wyoming and Utah. :smack:
Only missed Kentucky. If I had another minute, I would’ve gotten it.
I went through the states that I knew off the top of my head, then added the Presidential toss-up states, the states with pro sports teams, and then college sports conferences. I just didn’t make it to the SEC in time.
Alaska
Hawaii
Washington
Oregon
California
Idaho
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
West Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Vermont
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
Took me six minutes. It’s funny how An Gadai went East to West, and I went West to East, although we both used a top-down approach. Anyone (who doesn’t memorize an alphabetic list) start at Florida and go up?
I was gonna start the West - East way but I realised the East Coast has so many wee states that I’d likely forget some, I nearly forgot New Joisey. I remembered the fictional state of Delaware though. Anyone care to try naming the 32 counties of Ireland now?
I got 49 states in 2 minutes. It took me another 2 minutes to figure out which one I missed.
I worked through it by visualizing a map and writing down the states as I traveled over it. I used the two-letter postal abbreviations instead of full spelling, so I could go pretty fast.
Back in the day, my roommates and I would do this for fun … writing them out in a notebook. Invariably, there would be one little fucking state that would escape us, to the point of irritation.
And every time we played this little game, it was a different state that would be the elusive one.
We’d collectively have that “tip-of-the-tongue” syndrome until several hours later, in the middle of a card game or something, out of no where … “Fucking Kentucky!” :smack:
Countries of the World Map Quiz I think this thread derives from here. You can name the presidents,state capitols, NFL teams and many others. Naming presidents would seem easy but Buchanan,Polk,Van Buren and some others take a deep memory search.
). I request that if you chose to try this, please DO NOT READ PAST THIS OP TO OTHER RESPONSES UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR ATTEMPT. This is because I would like each respondent to post his or her results including the states, if any, that were missed, and seeing other people’s results could influence you. Yeah, we could use spoilers, but it’s just so much easier this way.
